Apr 15

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4.15.16 Week: 15 \ Day: 106

April Averages: 58°\27°

86004 Today: H 68° \ L 34 Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  18mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 76°[1948]   Record Low: 11°[1965]

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Quote of the Day 

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Observances Today                         

Get to Know Your Customers Day
Income Tax Pay Day
Jackie Robinson Day Link
McDonald's Day
National Day of Silence Link
Rubber Eraser Day Link
Take a Wild Guess Day
Titanic Remembrance Day

That Sucks Day
World Art Day (DaVinci's Birthday)  Link

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Observances This Week

9-17

YoYo & Skill Toys Week
10-16

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link
Spring Astronomy Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Link  

National Student Employment Week Link 
Pan American Week:
National Volunteer Week
Week of The Young Child Link
American Indian Awareness Week Link
International Dark Sky Week
Undergraduate Research Week
 Health Information Privacy and Security Week   Link
12-18

National Animal Control Appreciation Week  Link 
National Tattoo Week Link
15-17

Global Youth Service Days

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US Historical Highlights for Today

1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)

1850 City of San Francisco incorporated

1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington

1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics

1945 FDR buried in grounds of Hyde Park home

1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers)

1955 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois

1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery

1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour

FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!

4.15.16 Week: 15 \ Day: 106

April Averages: 58°\27°

86004 Today: H 68° \ L 34 Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  18mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 76°[1948]   Record Low: 11°[1965]

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Quote of the Day

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Observances Today                         

Get to Know Your Customers Day
Income Tax Pay Day
Jackie Robinson Day Link
McDonald's Day
National Day of Silence Link
Rubber Eraser Day Link
Take a Wild Guess Day
Titanic Remembrance Day

That Sucks Day
World Art Day (DaVinci's Birthday)  Link

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Observances This Week

9-17

YoYo & Skill Toys Week
10-16

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link
Spring Astronomy Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Link  

National Student Employment Week Link 
Pan American Week:
National Volunteer Week
Week of The Young Child Link
American Indian Awareness Week Link
International Dark Sky Week
Undergraduate Research Week
 Health Information Privacy and Security Week   Link
12-18

National Animal Control Appreciation Week  Link 
National Tattoo Week Link
15-17

Global Youth Service Days

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US Historical Highlights for Today

1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)

1850 City of San Francisco incorporated

1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington

1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics

1945 FDR buried in grounds of Hyde Park home

1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers)

1955 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois

1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery

1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour

1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U

1960 Guy Carawan sings "We Shall Overcome" to a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh - popularizing the song as a protest anthem

1961 "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances

1971 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton", George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win

1974 78th Boston Marathon: Neil Cusack of Ireland 1st man in 2:13:39 and Miki Gorman of United States 1st woman in 2:47:11

1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award winning stry about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story

1991 Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898

1996 100th Boston Marathon: Moses Tanui of Kenya 1st man in 2:09:15.9 and Uta Pippig of Germany 1st woman in 2:27:12

2013 Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line

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World Historical Highlights for Today

1493 -20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella

1528 Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native Indians

1534 Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII

1738 Bottle opener invented

1802 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

1896 First modern Olympic games close in Athens, Greece

2001 - Hundreds of people greet the relics of St Therese of Lisieux at Rosslare for the start of a 75 day tour of the country

2010 Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.

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My Rambling Thoughts

Good lunch with Cheryl, Mary is in Phx with her daughter for the weekend. Things are going well for Cheryl, and she is headed to CA to visit her son and his family next week.

Nice day, but a little cloudy. Storm on the horizon for the weekend. We need the moisture, but hopefully not a lot of snow.

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Birthdays Today

“( )” indicates age at death

(91) Michael Ansara,

Lowell Mass, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial), (d. 2013)

(82) Kim II Sung,

Eternal President ("The Great Leader") of North Korea (1945-94) (d.1994)

(70) Guru Nanak,

Punjab, Pakistan, Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru (d. 1539)

(77) Nikita Khrushchev,

Kalinovka, Russia First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), (d. 1971)

69- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason,

TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)

(67) Leonardo da Vinci,

Florence, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary (d. 1519)

(62) Elizabeth Montgomery,

LA, Ca, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched) (d.1995)

57- Emma Thompson,

England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)

(43) Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith,

Empress of Blues (over 200 songs) (d.1937)

34- Seth Rogen,

Vancouver, Canadian actor and writer (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Interview)

26- Emma Watson,

Paris, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)

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Historical Obits Today

@84-2002 Byron "Whizzer" White,

American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice

@84-1990 Greta Garbo,

actress (Anna Karenina, Camille)

@74-1980 Jean-Paul Sartre,

existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), Lung edema

@72-1998 Pol Pot,

Cambodian dictator, heart failure

@72-1971 Dan Reeves,

American football team owner

@65-1975 Richard Conte,

actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), heart attack

@56-1865 Abraham Lincoln,

16th American President, gunshot

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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